Last Modified: Sunday 12 May 2019
| Week 1: May 7/9 | History of LPs and SDPs, Basics of LPs, Application to LP and SDP relaxation of the max-cut problem, MC. |
| Week 2: May 14/16 | Semidefinite Programming Basics |
| Week 3: May 21/23 | Semidefinite Programming Examples/Applications |
| Week 4: May 28/30 | Duality |
| Week 5: June 4/6 | Duality cont... |
| Week 6: June 11/13 | Primal-Dual Interior Point Algorithms (2nd order algorithms) |
| Week 7: June 18/20 | First Order Algorithms |
| Week 8: June 25/27 | Applications to Distance Geometry |
| Week 9: July 2/4 | Applications to Discrete Optimization Problems |
| Week 10: July 9/11 | Specialized Topics on Stability and Specific Applications |
| Week 11: July 16/18 | Specialized Topics on Stability and Specific Applications |
| Week 12: July 23/25 | Euclidean Embeddings; Low Dimension and Low Rank Matrix Completion |
| Week 13: July 30 | Spcialized Topics |
Henry Wolkowicz, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, hwolkowicz@uwaterloo.ca.